How to allow space in the column names

Hi
My program reads data from an excel file which has columns named "Fiscal Year" and "current period". I can read data from the file as below...
select * from the_file
But it does not allow me, if I write the following sql statement.
select distinct fiscal Year, current period from the_file
I need to get distinct values from these two columns and the order in which these columns will appear in excel file is not fixed.
I tried
select distinct 'fiscal Year', 'current period' from the_file
But it did not work
Please help as how can I specify these columns that has a space in its name.
Thanks

Have you tried Double quotes as in:
select distinct "fiscal Year", "current period" from the_file;

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